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New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton
Post Practice Media Availability
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Opening Statement: “As we look ahead to tomorrow, it is a morning scrimmage. The tempo will be much like you are seeing right now at practice, the difference being obviously that we will have officials and we’ll create more of a game like situation down and distance-wise where it’s not just scripted. We’ll have to deal with substitution, down and distance. That will be the big change. We will receive plenty of reps. We will put in the special teams throughout that like we have done before. My best guess it would be finishing up around 11:30 a.m., 11:15 a.m., somewhere in that range.”

What was your review of the goal-line work today?

“It was tight red zone so goal line will be here in a couple more days, but I’m only saying that because the goal line will have a lot of big guys in there and a lot of handoffs. So today was a red zone install. Without looking at the tape obviously there are some good plays there on both sides of the ball but I think I want to take a peek at the tape and see. It was the first day it went in. We need work on it, I know that.”

What are your thoughts on Benjamin Watson so far?

“He is steady and he has been that way since the day we got him. He is steady. Those guys had to take a little bit more reps than we like in practice. He’s good shape (and) very consistent. You know exactly what you are getting and that is encouraging.”

Andrus Peat got reps with the first team at left tackle today. Is that something he has earned or are you throwing him in the fire a little bit?

“No, for us it made a lot of sense just with where we are at. We were sitting one more day with Terron (Armstead) and so we have some flexibility there and we said last night let’s move him over to the left side right now. It is a position he is familiar with, obviously he played it in college.”


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